January 14, 2010

Native corporations to help Shell with off-shore drilling (January 14, 2010)

Two Alaska Native village corporations have entered into a partnership with Shell to provide services for off-shore drilling operations. Olgoonik Corp., the corporation for the...

Scott Bear Don't Walk: Being the 'Indian Rhodes Scholar' (January 14, 2010)

"“Weren’t you the Indian Rhodes Scholar?” she said, as I shivered in her doorway holding my pizza delivery bag, wearing my “Red Pies Over...

Minnesota gubernatorial candidates attend Indian forum (January 14, 2010)

All 10 Democratic candidates for governor of Minnesota are scheduled to attend a forum on Indian issues tonight. Several groups, including the Native Vote Alliance...

Family seeks apology for 1869 conviction of Native chief (January 14, 2010)

The descendants of Anyitzachist, a chief of the Hesquiaht First Nation of British Columbia, is seeking an apology for the 1869 conviction and hanging of...

Former Indian center director seeks to avoid time in jail (January 14, 2010)

Edward Smiley, the former director of the Farmington Indian Center in Farmington, New Mexico, has asked to enter a pre-prosecution diversion program on charges...

Opinion: American Indian wisdom and the environment (January 14, 2010)

"It was encouraging news recently from the EPA that they intend to tighten the laws pertaining to air pollution. To bring the matter close to...

Column: Haskell offers haven for Indian basketball stars (January 14, 2010)

"The bus bounced along the highway from Eagle Butte, S.D., to Lawrence, Kan., covering the almost 700-mile trip in about 16 hours. Folded into...

Editorial: Osage Nation Chief Gray a 'radical' tribal leader (January 14, 2010)

"Osage Chief Jim Gray believes his tribe has a reservation and that its boundaries are the same as Osage County’s. This means Pawhuska and even...

Massachusetts tribes discuss concerns about wind farm (January 14, 2010)

The Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribe and the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe were cautious after meeting with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar about a controversial wind farm in...

Cedar Band plans to start construction on travel center (January 14, 2010)

The Cedar Band of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah plans to break ground this summer on a travel center. The $9 million Wai’ani Eagle...

Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe says officers acted illegally (January 14, 2010)

The Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe of Washington admitted two officers acted outside of their authority when they stopped and detained three non-Indian men off the...

Nearly third of Native female teens involved in violence (January 14, 2010)

Nearly a third of American Indian and Alaska Native teens were involved in serious fights or attacks in the past year, the Substance Abuse and...

White House silent on official apology to Native peoples (January 14, 2010)

President Barack Obama has yet to acknowledge the federal government's official apology to Native peoples, which was signed into law late last year with little...